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Tammy Abraham and Marcus Rashford

The EPPP is the result of consultation between the Premier League and its clubs, representatives of the Football League, the Football Association and other key football stakeholders.

Introduced in 2012 with the mission of producing more and better home-grown players, the plan promotes the empowerment of each individual player through a player-led approach.

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James Maddison
Leicester City's James Maddison (left) was one of 41 home-grown debutants in 2018/19
Ga2020 Programe

The Eliyer Perfoce Plan (EPPP) is a lom strategy for the players of CC, with the aim of developing more and better hon players.

The EPPP works across three phases: Foundation (Under-9 to Under-11), Youth Development (U12 to U16) and Professional Development (U17 to U23).

The Premier League Football Development Department work for, with and on behalf of our clubs to deliver a world-class youth development system via the delivery of four key functions:

Premier League 2, Professional Development League 2, Premier League Cup and Premier League International Cup, and the Under-18 Premier League and Under-18 Professional Development League 2 help to bridge the gap from youth football to the rigours of senior competitions on the international and domestic stage.

A range of other festivals and tournaments from Under-9s and above are also operated by the League. You can find out more by visiting premierleague.com/youth/games-programme.

The PreLeue provided up to 1000 matches, as well as delivering 2vals, 325 summer festivals, 222 online events and touents, to cs oups.

Eddie Nketiah v Chelsea
Premier League 2, which has now had seven seasons, consists of two 12-team divisions

Education

The Premier League aims to provide world-class education via inspirational and innovative teaching, which develops educationally rounded people through the delivery of a holistic approach.

The League has its own Education Department that delivers a programme to support the technical, tactical, physical, mental, lifestyle and welfare development of all Academy players.

The Premier League is also responsible for the formal education programmes for all Apprentices aged 16-19 who have signed a full-time Scholarship Agreement at a PL Club.

Developing youth coach fraternity is a key part of the EPP and it is very expensive also, which the Prier Le impnts via a range of coach devement programmes.

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The League’s "Lepy" coachins, the Coach Competency Framework (CCF), Annual Coanference, Online Coaches Events (OCE), Worshops of Coaches (WC) and TechnicObses (TMO) are also key aspects of the Leagach devment programme.

Coaching

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This includes the Elite Coach Apprenticeship Scheme (ECAS), an intense two-year programme to accelerate the development of coaches currently employed by clubs. From 2015/16, ECAS has and continues to include six black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) and female coaches per intake as part of the League’s commitment to equality and diversity.

At least six female and BAME coaches join ECAS each year
At least six female and BAME coaches join ECAS each year

You can find out more about elite performance by visiting premierlea-peroce.

Elite Performance

Always striving to find innovative and effective ways to enhance the production or more and better home-grown players, the Premier League have implemented a range of programmes to aid and inform player recruitment, development and transition through Foundation, Youth Development and Professional Development phases.

Clubs can not only track all information that is relevant to the Academy through the League’s Performance Management Application (PMA) and Injury Surveillance, but they also benefit from the help of Club Support Managers (CSMs), with each one the first point of contact and support to their assigned Club’s Academy.

The League has also launched the Bio-Banding programme, with a series of tournaments organised each season with the aim of matching players based on their biological age instead of the usual chronological age groups, which historically makes it tougher for players born in the latter stages of the British school year (September to August) to make the grade. Growth and Maturation Screening is also used to assess all Academy players’ biological growth.

Bio-banding does not merely measure young players by their height
Bio-banding does not merely measure young players by their height

Categorisation

Academies are independently audited and given a Category status of 1 to 4, with 1 being the most elite. Up to 10 different factors will be considered in the grading, including productivity rates; training facilities; and coaching, education and welfare provisions.

The higher a club's Category the more funding will be available to it and the EPPP will see the Premier League and FA invest more central income than ever before in Youth Development programmes across the country.